Crist names two to 17th Circuit, one to 5th

Gov. Charlie Crist has appointed Matthew Destry and Carlos Rebollo to serve on the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Broward County.

Destry, 49, is an assistant statewide prosecutor for the Florida Attorney General.  Previously, headed his own firm and served an assistant state attorney. He graduated from the University of Tampa and Stetson University College of Law. 

Rebollo, 48, graduated from Rutgers University and Drake University Law School. He currently heads his own firm. Previously, he was an assistant state attorney in Broward County from 1988-2007.

Destry will replace Judge Larry Seidlin who resigned effective June 30, 2007. Carlos Rebollo will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Lawrence Korda, whose resignation date is effective July 2, 2007.

Crist also appointed of Robert W. Hodges of Ocala to the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court.

Hodges, 42, graduated from the University of South Florida and University of Florida College of Law.  Since 1990, he has been an Assistant State Attorney for the Fifth Circuit in Florida.  In 2000, Hodges became a member of the State Child Abuse Death Review Committee, appointed by the Secretary of Health to represent the Florida Prosecuting Attorney’s Association.  He served as chairman of this committee from 2003-2006.

Hodges will fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Carven D. Angel, whose resignation date is effective November 30, 2007. 

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